Senior Security Engineer, RTOS & Embedded Virtualization

2100 NVIDIA USA

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 184,000 - 357,000

Full time

14 days+

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NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for the RTOS and virtualization domain within the NVIDIA DRIVE Software group. You will lead security engineering across RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization while collaborating on CPU/SoC architecture, safety, and security standards.

The role requires 8+ years in security for embedded systems, with strong C/C++ skills and experience securing privileged software.

Qualifications

8+ years of hands-on experience in systems, embedded, platform, product, or automotive security.
Experience securing RTOS, hypervisor, kernel, firmware, boot, driver, or other privileged software.
Strong C/C++ skills, with focus on memory safety, concurrency, resource ownership, privilege boundaries, and isolation.

Responsibilities

Lead security engineering for RTOS, hypervisor, and embedded virtualization technologies across design, implementation, review, and verification.
Collaborate on CPU and SoC architecture, including privilege levels, memory protection, DMA, interrupts, boot flows, debug controls, and hardware isolation.
Build and implement defensive features such as strong partitioning, least-privilege access, secure communication, fault containment, secure updates, and recovery from malicious inputs.
Perform threat modeling and automotive TARA, and connect risks, mitigations, requirements, tests, and evidence to security and safety standards.
Review low-level C/C++ code, investigate vulnerabilities, build fuzzing and security test infrastructure, and drive fixes into production.